World’s Largest Image Taken Using GigaPan EPIC Pro

GigaPan announced that the world’s largest digital photo has been taken.

 The image of Dubai was captured at 45 gigapixels, beating the earlier record of largest photo of Paris at 26 gigapixels. The largest image of Dubai will take the size of approximately 1200 billboards, when printed.

The landscape of Dubai was captured recently by the photographer Gerald Donovan with the help of GigaPan EPIC Pro that is a robotic camera mount. The camera mount is based on the same technology as that of NASA’s Mars Rover. Donovan captured the image through Canon 7D camera in combination with the EPIC Pro. This technique captured the landscape in about 4,250 pictures for a time period of 3.5 h.

Then the pictures were stitched together by GigaPan Engineers Paul Heckbert and
Randy Sargent. They used the Autopano stitching software to make the 4,250 pictures into one large piece.

Donovan said that that task was planned as a technical test to explore the limits of the software and hardware available. The panoramic can be viewed at GigaPan.org, a photo sharing site.